I am sitting here with a double stuff cookie in my hand. Is it me or is double stuff now 1.5 stuff? Single stuff seems to be ¾ stuff. In order to get a double stuff do we need to purchase triple stuff? Maybe it is merely the impression of a mind that remembers things bigger and better than they really were. Rarely are things bigger than they were when we were small and so very wowable.
It becomes more and more difficult to be wowed as we mature. I don’t want to lose my wowability. I still want reverentness to overwhelm me and to be filled with awe at things beautiful and lovely. Our egalitarian culture encourages us to call everyone by their first name but there is something special in calling someone Sir or Mrs. or Mr. President. I do not want all things reduced to me. How sorry I feel for a person who doesn’t believe in God. The highest power he or she ever encounters is in the mirror each morning. What an impoverished intellectual life that must be.
Unlike the size of things growing smaller as we age there are many things that grow in depth. Frost, Shakespeare, Paul, Luther, and David are but a sample of the richness of understanding that comes with years. Only in recent years have I understood that John 14, “In my house are many rooms . . .” has little to do with fancy buildings.
Surely eternity will always be about bigger and better and never smaller. However, the real joy will always be about depth, profundity and love. Now that will be quite grand.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 25, 2011
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